As a first-steps project in Ruby I've opted to write a simple daemon that registers an IMAP connection to my mail-server and waits for a remote mail clients to manually report spams which evade my spamassassin configuration (by moving it to a specific folder) before reporting it using "spamassassin -r" and placing the mail among my other automatically filtered spam.
I've made good initial progress using the Net::IMAP support in the standard library - until I realised that I don't really want to poll to see if new messages are in the the 'report-spam' folder... rather I want to use the "IDLE" command (RFC 2177) in order not to unnecessarily load my mail server, or introduce long delays between polls. I can't see a way to do this using Net::IMAP... am I overlooking something in the documentation? Is there a simple way to extend Net::IMAP in order to support the IDLE command? Is there a newer version of the standard library which has this support (I'm using Ruby 1.8.2)?
Thanks for any pointers...
Steve